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• Improved data grid for charts in Word and PowerPoint

  25 Apr 2013

  This post is brought to you by Kevin Donovan, a Program Manager in the Graphics and Data Visualizations Team. One of the overlooked improvements that we added to charting in the new Office applications has to do with the "data grid" shared between Excel and PowerPoint/Word. We introduced the "data grid...
• Excel Geek Express—otherwise known as Quick Analysis

  18 Apr 2013

  Guest blogger Emily Warn is co-owner of Two Pens , which provides blogging services and teaches business how to write content that grows a social media following. My writer friends think I'm a geek. You can do what?! I can create a spreadsheet with book sales numbers that can be sorted by name and number...
• Format and customize Excel 2013 charts quickly with the new Formatting Task pane

  27 Mar 2013

  The new Excel offers a rich set of charting capabilities that make creating and customizing charts simpler and more intuitive. One part of the fluid new experience is the Formatting Task pane. Until now, precise adjustments to chart elements were made in the Format dialog box. The box sometimes obscured...
• Chart Styles in the new Microsoft Office

  15 Nov 2012

  This post is brought to you by Robin Wakefield, a Program Manager on the Graphics team. I have been working in the data visualization area for the last two releases and this is a feature I hold dear to my heart. In a previous article I talked about how you can make your charts look professional using...
• Chart Elements: Customizing your Chart

  31 Oct 2012

  This post is brought to you by Chris Doan, a Program Manager on the Graphics team. What’s the first thing you do with a chart after you’ve inserted it? For many users, it’s modifying the chart to make it look exactly the way you want it to look. Sometimes that means fiddling around...
• Intro to Power View for Excel 2013

  4 Oct 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Allie Rutherford a Program Manager on the Excel team. Have you ever looked at a dashboard someone made and went, “man, I like that, but there’s too many steps for me to remember”? Or maybe wanted to have a way to play around with your data in a safe...
• Inserting Charts in Excel 2013

  27 Sep 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Nick Chiang a Program Manager on the Office Graphics team. As Scott mentioned in his Charting Overview post , users have always struggled with picking the right chart type to represent their data. Unless you have a good understanding of the different chart types available...
• Charting Overview for the new Microsoft Office

  6 Sep 2012

  This post is brought to you by Scott Ruble a Lead Principal Program Manager on the Excel team. With the new Microsoft Office release, the Office DataViz team is proud to deliver a rich set of charting capabilities across Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project. In fact, because there are so many features...
• Our eight best tutorials on Excel charts

  30 May 2012

  Excel spreadsheets are all about numbers. But tons of numbers are often not the most effective way to communicate. That's where charts come in handy. Charts can display numeric data in a graphical format, making it easy to understand large quantities of data and the relationships among data. If you want...